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Job of the week: Band 8A stroke clinical lead role (secondment)

June 23, 2022

There is an exciting secondment role for a ward manager with at least a years’ experience in leading a team well, who wants to develop further. This role is about excellent leadership, fundamentals of care delivery and team development. In addition it involves objectives, working with a whole pathway, collaborative working and will stretch and enable development for an aspiring future matron.

The role is for 6 months, based on stroke wards at Sandwell. The stroke pathway involves a patient journey from an unexpected admission from A&E, acute care and rehabilitation care; this encompasses a variety of transitions in patient journey as well as nursing skills and close collaborative working with allied professionals. There are lots of opportunities to make a difference to the patient journey for stroke patients and each part of the patient journey requires specialist skills from the MDT.

This roles offers:

  • Close mentoring from the stroke/neurology matron to develop your wider understanding of stroke/neurology pathway and areas of influence
  • Great development for an aspiring matron with clear objectives
  • Clear objectives to demonstrate your leadership ability and provide a structured supportive culture
  • Opportunity to focus on our current stroke rehab pathway and work collaboratively with a wider exposure within the role.
  • Change management experience through visual leadership, strong clinical presence and effective communication

If you’re passionate about driving the patient care agenda and fundamentals of care, confident to lead and want to develop further this is a great opportunity to showcase your skills.

Essential requirements:

  • A minimum of a years’ experience leading a team
  • Demonstrable evidence of change management
  • Line managers support for secondment

If you are interested in the role, please email Julie.Thompson40@nhs.net.

The closing date for this vacancy is Thursday 30 June with interview scheduled to take place week commencing on Monday 4 July.